Every day, millions of people go to work -- whether it is an office, a laboratory, an athletic field or a music studio -- but only a few rise to the top. The TIME 100 recognizes the world's most influential people in business, art, politics, science and other fields, men and women who have made a major impact on society, for better or worse.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/time100/
Who's your choice ?
here is the list for the century - supposedly !?
LEADERS AND REVOLUTIONARIES
David Ben-Gurion
Ho Chi Minh
Winston Churchill
Mohandas Gandhi
Mikhail Gorbachev
Adolf Hitler
Martin Luther King
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini
V.I. Lenin
Nelson Mandela
Pope John Paul II
Ronald Reagan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Margaret Thatcher
Unknown Rebel
Margaret Sanger
Lech Walesa
Mao Zedong
BUILDERS AND TITANS
Stephen Bechtel
Leo Burnett
Willis Carrier
Walt Disney
Henry Ford
Bill Gates
Amadeo Giannini
Ray Kroc
Estee Lauder
William Levitt
Lucky Luciano
Louis B. Mayer
Charles Merrill
Akio Morita
Walter Reuther
Pete Rozelle
David Sarnoff
Juan Trippe
Sam Walton
Thomas Watson, Jr.
ARTIST & ENTERTAINERS
Louis Armstrong
Lucille Ball
The Beatles
Marlon Brando
Coco Chanel
Charlie Chaplin
Le Corbusier
Bob Dylan
T.S. Eliot
Aretha Franklin
Martha Graham
Jim Henson
James Joyce
Pablo Picasso
Rodgers &Hammerstein
Bart Simpson
Frank Sinatra
Steven Spielberg
Igor Stravinsky
Oprah Winfrey
SCIENTISTS AND THINKERS
Leo Baekeland
Tim Berners-Lee
Rachel Carson
Francis Crick & James Watson
Albert Einstein
Philo Farnsworth
Enrico Fermi
Alexander Fleming
Sigmund Freud
Robert Goddard
Kurt Gödel
Edwin Hubble
John Maynard Keynes
Louis, Mary & Richard Leakey
Jean Piaget
Jonas Salk
William Shockley
Alan Turing
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wilbur & Orville Wright
HEROES AND ICONS
Muhammad Ali
The American G.I.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Anne Frank
Billy Graham
Che Guevara
E. Hillary & T. Norgay
Helen Keller
The Kennedys
Bruce Lee
Charles Lindbergh
Harvey MIlk
Marilyn Monroe
Mother Teresa
Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Pelé
Andrei Sakharov
Jackie Robinson
Bill Wilson
Originally posted by geniusThey should put a proviso on these polls like you need to have been dead for x years, otherwise you will get current popular votes.
meh-remember the "greatest ever britain" award. seriously-what did darwin ever do for us? and princess diana? great?!?
I mean - Princess Di?
Please...
from what i saw, newton wasn't there (the whole one of the greatest scientist ever bit...you know-without him, we mgiht all be wondering how we're stuck to the earth and why space ships fly. also-what he's produced are laws. proven. they are. einstines is still a theory...isn't it? 😛)
also-edisson? the TV guy...or the lightbulb? or the phone? i forget exactly...but neither of those three are in it! and quite frankyl, they shaped the world more than those people iv'e never heard of...
Originally posted by geniusThe list is of people who are around today
from what i saw, newton wasn't there (the whole one of the greatest scientist ever bit...you know-without him, we mgiht all be wondering how we're stuck to the earth and why space ships fly. also-what he's produced are laws. proven. they are. einstines is still a theory...isn't it? 😛)
also-edisson? the TV guy...or the lightbulb? or the phone? i forget ...[text shortened]... e in it! and quite frankyl, they shaped the world more than those people iv'e never heard of...
Originally posted by geniusPrincess Diana marked a turning point in the way people viewed the royals. She brouhgt them into the 20th (and even 21st centurty) She was a fairy tale princess whose fairy tale turned out to be a nightmare. She was a role model for women everywhere. She shared with us her pain and her joys, and she did not live in an Ivory Tower, as most royals seem to. She was a vibrant young woman who was not afraid to touch the sick and dying. She kissed and held the hands of people with aids and leprosy, and made it clear that she was no better than they were. She brought humility and warmth to the royals, even if it was just for a brief shining moment.
meh-remember the "greatest ever britain" award. seriously-what did darwin ever do for us? and princess diana? great?!?
Originally posted by saintnickThe list is of people who made an impact on the 20th C - even if Blair was to make it, he'd be 21st C. And Carnegie was 19th C.
The list isn't of poeple around. Lucille Ball, Ray Kroc, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Ford......... are all long gone. Where's Andrew Carnagie?
Logie Baird is a suprising omission. Diana should be there - whatever you think of the (censored) woman, she's iconic to a suprising amount of the world.